Dr. Glen J. Hemberger

Director of Bands

For over twenty-five years, Glen J. Hemberger has been active in the areas of conducting,
wind band literature, and music education around the globe. He has lectured, conducted,
adjudicated, and presented at workshops, festivals, honor bands, and conferences on
five continents and in over twenty states, and his students continue to make their
mark as leading performers and teachers on every level of the educational spectrum.

Dr. Hemberger has appeared as a guest of numerous groups around the world, including
the Association for Music in International Schools International Honor Band in The
Hague, The Netherlands, the National Taiwan University Wind Orchestra in a performance
at the Asia and Pacific Band Director's Association Conference in Hong Kong, the United
States Coast Guard Band, the U.S. Army Field Band, the New Orleans Civic Symphony
Orchestra, and as the first American to conduct the Chinese Military Armed Police
Band in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, China. He serves as Principal Guest Conductor
of the Orquestra de Municipal Sopros de Caxias in Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. He has presented
educational clinics and symposia workshops at a variety of conferences, including
meetings of the Society for American Music, the Queensland Institute of Technology
in Brisbane, Australia, the Beijing Band Director's Association, and the 10th Annual
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in O'ahu, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
In 2010, he appeared as a guest conductor at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra
Conference in Chicago.

As an adjudicator, Professor Hemberger has appeared around the United States, judging
locally and nationally for numerous contests and festivals including the Massachusetts
Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association, and internationally at the Yamaha
European Open in Hamar, Norway and the 2000 Norwegian National Wind Band Championships
in Trondheim, Norway.

Dr. Hemberger has collaborated in concert with a number of noteworthy artists from
many idioms, including Philip Smith, John Bruce Yeh, Eugene Rousseau, Adam Frey, Eric
Ruske, Ed Shaughnessy, "Blue" Lou Marini, Jr., Bonerama, and Broadway star Ivan Rutherford.
His work in promoting the work of contemporary composers has led to praise from such
legends as Karel Husa, Jack Stamp, and Frank Ticheli, and collaborative concerts with
composers Johan de Meij, David Gillingham, and Samuel Hazo.

Professor Hemberger continues to contribute to professional journals and publications,
writing articles and educational guides for The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal,
Today's Music Educator, the Journal of the International Trumpet Guild, and resource
guides for ten volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series. Early
in his career as a brass player, he was chosen as a member of the Olympic All-American
Marching Band at the Games of the XXIIIrd-Olympiad in Los Angeles, was a Drum Corps
International World Championship Finalist in Montreal, Canada as a member of the Casper
Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps, and performed for the Mexican Police Academy in Mexico
City, Mexico.

Glen Hemberger is Professor of Music, Director of Bands, and Coordinator of Graduate
Studies in Music at Southeastern Louisiana University. Dr. Hemberger conducts the
Wind Symphony and teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate conducting. The Southeastern
Wind Symphony was chosen to perform at the 2004 Southern Division Conference of the
College Band Director's National Association/National Band Association in Atlanta,
Georgia, and appeared in the 2013 Grainger Wind Band Festival, performing in Orchestra
Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Southeastern Wind Symphony received
two Global Music Awards, a Gold Award Medal for Symphonic Band Music, and a Silver
Medal for Instrumental Music for its CD, "Live in Concert" recorded in Chicago, Illinois
and Hammond, Louisiana. Before joining the faculty at Southeastern in 1999, Dr. Hemberger
served as Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Marching Band at Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater, on the ensemble and education faculty at the University
of Rhode Island at Kingston, and as Director of Bands at Thornton High School in Thornton,
Colorado. At Southeastern, he has held an Endowed Professorship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities (2011-2013), has served on the north shore advisory board
for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, was recipient of the Hammond Regional Arts
Award, and was awarded the prestigious Southeastern President's Award for Excellence
in Artistic Activity in 2007. Dr. Hemberger has been awarded membership in the international
bandmasters fraternity Phi Beta Mu, the national music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda,
and was national recipient of the 2013 Orpheus Award for advancement of American music
by the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America. In April 2014, he was presented
with the National Band Association Citation of Excellence.

Dr. Hemberger received the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Instrumental
Conducting from University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Doctor of Musical Arts
in Wind Repertoire and Conducting from University of North Texas. He lists among his
most influential mentors Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Wayne A. Bailey, Jess Gerardi,
James E. "Jim" Jones, Dennis Fisher, Charles J. Cassio, John Whitehurst, and Allan
McMurray.